Re: DISTURBING! Antifa Hackers Prepared To Release Naked Pictures of Trump and Some Anonymous Children

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:39:35 -0000 (UTC), Skeeter <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Hackers Claim Trump Dirty Laundry Data Has Been Sold To ‘Interested Party’
>
>
>The REvil crime group, branded as terrorists after threatening to disclose 
>Trump's 'dirty laundry' if a $42 million (£34.6 million) ransom, the 
>biggest ever, wasn’t paid, have issued another statement via the dark web 
>today.
>
>A ransomware attack against a New York law firm with celebrity clients 
>apparently morphed from cybercrime to terrorism in just a few days. The 
>REvil group behind the attack stole data as well as encrypting systems. 
>The threat of publishing, or selling, that data is then used as leverage 
>in the ransom negotiations. Comments from the Grubman, Shire, Meiselas and 
>Sacks law firm published on May 15 changed the whole dynamic of what was 
>already a serious cybercrime incident. The New York law firm stated that 
>"we have been informed by the experts and the FBI that negotiating with or 
>paying ransom to terrorists is a violation of federal criminal law." The 
>FBI has since stated that ransomware is treated as a criminal 
>investigation unless deployed by a terrorist organization or nation state.
>
>However, the use of the ‘terrorist’ word triggered an angry, and quick, 
>response from the REvil ransomware operators on May 17. In a long and 
>ranting posting on the dark web, the threat actors said that "Mr. Lawyer 
>says that Donald has never been their client. And he says that we are 
>bluffing. Oh well. The first part, with the most harmless information, we 
>will post here." That posting concluded with links to a collection of 169 
>emails purporting to be a small part of the 'dirty laundry' data the group 
>had on President Trump.
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>MORE FROM FORBESHackers Publish First 169 Trump 'Dirty Laundry' Emails 
>After Being Branded Cyber-Terrorists
>By Davey Winder
>
>Today, the REvil group has posted yet another update. Here's what it had 
>to say as far the data about President Trump was concerned: "Interested 
>people contacted us and agreed to buy all the data about the U.S. 
>President, which we have accumulated over the entire time of our 
>activity." The cybercriminals said that they were "very pleased with the 
>deal," but did not disclose any further information regarding either the 
>buyer or the amount paid. If, that is, anything was actually sold at all.
>
>The "most harmless" emails released on the dark web, all 169 of them, 
>contained absolutely nothing that could be considered as dirt on Trump. 
>For all intents and purposes, that data dump looked like someone had just 
>searched an archive for "trump" and put everything returned into a file. 
>Including trump being used as a verb and messages referring to Trump in 
>the third-person. The considered opinion of most all the security 
>intelligence experts I have spoken to is that REvil had nothing of any 
>consequence on Trump and was, in fact, bluffing as leverage to get a 
>ransom paid.
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>By Davey Winder
>
>The statement today would seem to validate that argument. If they had 
>anything of any real interest about the President then, common sense 
>suggests, they would have included at least something in that first leak 
>of data. Something to whet the appetite and hopefully increase the odds of 
>getting paid out. They didn't. Instead, what we have is a statement that 
>"solves the problem of them having to produce data they have not actually 
>got," Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Emsisoft with a particular 
>interest in dark web intelligence, told me.
>
>What they probably do have, Callow says, is information related to Madonna 
>from the celebrity law firm data theft. "Auctioning it is the only way for 
>them to monetize their attack," Callow says, "as Grubman, Shire, Meiselas 
>and Sacks has stated it cannot and will not pay the ransom demand."
>
>That auction of all the data pertaining to Madonna, REvil said, will be on 
>May 25, and the starting price is a million dollars.


Hi Chad.